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Each year the Intensive Sessions at the Annual Scientific Session provide a deep dive into new and growing areas in cardiovascular practice. This year the topic of Artificial Intelligence returns with a three-part series.

The Artificial Intelligence Intensive offers a deep, end-to-end look at how AI is transforming cardiovascular care — from bedside to balance sheet to breakthrough research. Together, these sessions move beyond hype to real-world impact.

The first session, Augmented Intelligence at the Point of Care: From Hype to Daily Practice (Session 103), starts with practical strategies for integrating augmented intelligence into daily clinical workflows, informed by frontline experience from clinicians and technologists. The Louis F. Bishop Keynote by Mintu Turakhia, MD, MS, will focus on scaling AI in practice. The second session, Financing and Governing Augmented Intelligence That Clinicians Trust (Session 104), tackles the critical financial, regulatory, and governance frameworks needed to fund, scale, and earn clinician trust in AI tools. The series culminates at the research frontier with Pixels to Prognosis – Research Frontiers in Cardiovascular Health AI (Session 260), spotlighting cutting-edge advances in AI-driven ECG and echocardiography and the path from pixels to prognosis. The Zipes Distinguished Young Scientist Awardee Keynote by Rohan Khera, MD, MS, FACC, will highlight bottlenecks in translating research to clinical care.

Attendees will leave the Intensive Sessions and ACC.26 with actionable insights on implementation, oversight, and innovation shaping the future of AI in cardiology.

ACC.26 spotlights the expanding role of artificial intelligence across cardiovascular care with a dynamic lineup of sessions that span imaging, congenital cardiology, intervention, prevention, and more.

From Code to Clinic: AI Transforming Cardiac Imaging (Session 304) showcases how AI is reshaping diagnosis, risk prediction, and personalized management for adults with congenital heart disease, featuring real-time clinical challenges where AI goes head-to-head with experts and the audience. Remote Monitoring: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Session 269) takes a candid look at the promise and pitfalls of rhythm monitoring, exploring data overload, patient engagement, and how AI is influencing the future of remote care. Innovation moves into the cath lab in From Sci-Fi to Stents: The Innovative Tech of Tomorrow's Cath Labs (Session 261), highlighting AI-enabled procedural planning, augmented reality, and next-generation tools transforming interventional practice. Tech or Therapy? Is Innovation or Tradition Better for Preventing CV? (Session 378) brings the debate to prevention, pitting AI-driven risk models against traditional approaches to ask whether emerging technologies or proven therapies will deliver better cardiovascular outcomes.

For even more sessions focused on the topic of AI, check out the AI Practice Focus in the Online Planner.